敷衍塞责 — Chinese idiom
敷衍塞责
fū yǎn sè zé
Traditional: 敷衍塞責
Meaning
- to skimp on the job; to work half-heartedly; not to take the job seriously
Character by character
- 敷fūto apply, to paint, to spread
- 衍yǎnto overflow; to spread out
- 塞sèto stop up, to seal, to cork, to block; pass, fron
- 责zéone's responsibility, duty
Idioms sharing a character
- 敷衍了事 fū yǎn liǎo shì
- 塞翁失马 sài wēng shī mǎ
- 茅塞顿开 máo sè dùn kāi
- 闭门塞窦 bì mén sè dòu
- 守土有责 shǒu tǔ yǒu zé
- 征名责实 zhēng míng zé shí
- 求全责备 qiú quán zé bèi
- 尽职尽责 jìn zhí jìn zé
- 责有攸归 zé yǒu yōu guī
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3). Retrieved 2026-10-22.